A good example of noticing that one is surprised and then acting appropriately on it. https://twitter.com/NoamJStein/status/1255824077878681601 …
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I'm guessing that the 60k "influenza deaths" are more "people dying with influenza" rather than "people dying of influenza". If you ask doctors "have you ever seen a patient die of heart failure while suffering from influenza" the answer is probably very different.
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As I understand it, many of those are deaths from influenza in the sense that the patient would not have had the heart attack had they not gotten influenza
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you're perfecting the pedagogical Twitter dialogue better than anyone else. in 280 characters, quite a feat!


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This fits nicely in
@EricRWeinstein's formulation of "failure to close"https://twitter.com/EricRWeinstein/status/778434538200371200 …Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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with flu, usually classified as pneumonia or some other complication. the difference now is they'll got classified as pneumonia in those cases, whereas now there is a recency bias, a recall bias, and everything gets classified as COVID-19 if it is any way involved in the death.
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This is why data scientists tend to doubt basically any dataset we didn't manually validate the provenance of
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Covid deaths here are counted as ‘with Covid’ not of. And they don’t tend to test for Flu as it’s not notifiable. A lot of deaths are recorded as pneumonia.
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Is the geographical spread of Flu related deaths vastly in developing countries?
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This reminds me of the opening of Children of Men..
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